02/28/2011. Remarks by Alfred Damen and Jack McKillop: "This shot dates back to 1962 when Martin's Air Charter (now Martinair) was expanding rapidly and started carrying air freight - as you can see from the location on the 'old' freight area. This particular machine has an interesting pedigree. It started out May 3, 1945, with the USAAF as a C-47B-35-DK, s/n 44-76881, then was transferred to the RAF under Lend-Lease as Dakota Mk.IV, s/n KN582, on May 7, 1945.

The next owner was Field Aircraft Services who bought it on January 16, 1950 and the airframe was given the civil registration G-ALXM. It was sold to the British airline BEA (British European Airlines) on February 28, 1950 and named 'William Rhodes Moorhouse'.

The Dutch company Martin's Air Charter of Amsterdam purchased the airplane as PH-MAA on July 4, 1960. It was leased to the German airline Lufthansa from April 1 to June 6, 1963, then sold to the Swiss airline Belair of Basle as HB-ITD on October 26, 1967. Belair leased it to the UN Middle East operation and it was based in Jerusalem for a while.

It was then sold to the US company Air Transport Inc of Houston, Texas, registered as DC-3C N37737 on May 27, 1974 and was stored at Mexico City, Mexico between January 1979 and September 1980 until sold to a person in Mexico and registered XB-DYU in 1987. In December 1994, it was sold to the US company Central Air Service of Rantoul, Kansas but it was stored until June 1995. (When the paint was stripped off the aircraft, two Mexican registration were found, XB-ITD and XB-DYU.) It was still be stored as of July 2003."